Creepy Chronicles
This Bram Stoker novel tells the chilling story of a vampire who leaves Transylvania to terrorize England.
What is Dracula?
The tool that an author uses to appeal to the reader's senses.
What is imagery?
This 19th-century literary movement emphasized emotion, individualism, and the glorification of nature, with writers like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge leading the charge.
What is Romanticism?
This genre is defined by its focus on the relationship between a hero and their supernatural or extraordinary journey, often involving mythical creatures or gods.
What is Epic?
The author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens but is more famously known by this pen name.
Who is Mark Twain?
This 1960 novel by Harper Lee, dealing with racial injustice in the American South, was banned in several schools due to its portrayal of racism.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This character from It by Stephen King takes the form of a clown to lure and terrorize children.
Who is Pennywise?
In a story, this element is a sequence of events that includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
This movement, which emerged in the mid-19th century, focused on depicting everyday life and the struggles of ordinary people, with authors like Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert at the forefront.
What is Realism?
This genre is rooted in speculation about future technological advances, often exploring themes of science and innovation and its impact on society, such as in Brave New World or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What is Science Fiction?
Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, this author not only created this pseudonym but also fantastical works known for their wordplay, logic, and dreamlike qualities.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
This 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury, which critiques censorship and a dystopian future where books are banned, has faced bans for its criticism of government control and conformity.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," the vengeful Montresor does this to the unfortunate Fortunado.
What is buries him alive?
This literary device contrasts appearance and reality, often surprising readers with unexpected twists or misunderstandings.
What is irony?
In this period, the Catholic Church reigned supreme and provided a framework for everything people did in this life and in the next.
What is the Medieval period or Middle Ages?
Featuring novels with "world building" in which every detail of an imagined world has been carefully planned and described, this genre makes dragons, dungeons, elves and wizards seem believable!
What is fantasy?
John Griffith Chaney was the real name of this author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang who went by this pen name.
Who is Jack London?
This 1982 novel by Alice Walker, which portrays themes of racism, sexism, and sexual violence, was banned in several communities for its controversial content.
What is The Color Purple?
In this classic horror tale by Shirley Jackson, you "lose" by "winning."
What is "The Lottery"?
The narrative point of view in which the narrator can reveal the inner thoughts and emotions of any character at any time.
What is omniscient?
In this movement, which lasted from the 1920s to the 1940s, authors like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and experimented with narrative forms to capture the complexity of the human experience.
What is Modernism?
This poetic form typically depicts the essence of an experience of nature in such a way as to evoke in the reader a similar experience, along with memories, emotions and associations.
What is a haiku?
Born Mary Ann Evans, she used this pen name to avoid being taken less seriously because of her gender.
Who is George Eliot?
This 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger, featuring the troubled teenager Holden Caulfield, has been banned for its profanity, rebellious themes, and portrayal of mental health issues.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
The last words spoken by the character Kurtz at the end of Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness."
What is "The Horror! The Horror!"
This element in a tragedy creates an emotional reaction in the audience by invoking a sense of deep sadness, fear, or pity, often linked to the tragic hero’s downfall.
What is catharsis?
Instead of the afterlife and eternal salvation or damnation, Human emotion and achievement became the focus of this movement, which modeled itself on classical Greek & Roman sources.
What is the Renaissance?
A fourteen-line poem with two or three sections organized by rhyme scheme, this poetic genre has been used by poets from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Shelley to Yeats and beyond!
What is the sonnet?
To test whether his success was due to talent or mere commercial appeal, he wrote several books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Who is Stephen King?
This 1945 novella by George Orwell, which critiques totalitarian regimes through a story of farm animals, was banned in several countries for its political content.
What is Animal Farm?